Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Philip Mason Garneris an American former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder with the Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14, 2004 to August 27, 2007, leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1949
CityJefferson City, TN
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There's no question that there's some sentimentality involved, ... There's a lot of other reasons to have him be the DH, but I think the overriding reason is he's a good player and if the game's on the line, I'd just as soon have Jeff Bagwell up.
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I wasn't a rookie in pennant races, but I was a rookie calling the shots. The players made me look good.
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I thought his career was about done, and that was about six or seven years ago. That shows how smart I am. ... He's been a phenomenal player and fun to watch...you appreciate what guys like him do for our game.
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Nobody would've projected him to be as good as he's been. It also leads you to believe that as smart as we are sometimes, maybe it's better sometimes to let players play just to see. Sometimes guys surprise you. Sometimes you misread a player, you just don't know how he's going to respond under pressure situations.
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What players should do up here, even if there's no spots available, (is) strut your stuff. This is where you show what you can do.
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The beautiful thing about our game to manage (is) you learn on the job. We've been through all the experiences. You're not asking the players to do something we ourselves haven't done. He'll draw on those experiences, and I think he'll do quite fine.
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As far as the players were concerned, we thought he was fantastic. He was tough but he was always fair and this was a first-class organization when he was here.
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For us, it's the best one out of three right now. It doesn't get any easier. We're in good position in terms of our pitching, our players and everything. But the job's still got to get done.
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He's pitched well. I'm impressed with several of their young players ... him in particular.
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He might be the best all-around player in baseball today. If we're going to put our money somewhere ...
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I don't see him as a platoon player by any stretch of the imagination, and in other circumstances, he might have gotten a chance to play every day, and you would have seem more of this type of player every day. We just didn't have the luxury of letting him fail a little bit along the way to becoming the player that he is.
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In terms of the way I played, I was aggressive, foolish at times, maybe the same way as a manager sometimes. But it doesn't really matter. It's what goes on on the field at any given minute, the players have the ball in their hands.
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The umpire said he went to his mouth. It was a bad call. It was a mistaken call. It's unfortunate that the game, in my opinion, turned on that. You don't know what's going to happen, but it takes it out of the players hands. He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow (and came) across his nose and caught it on his face. It was a bad call, plain and simple.
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And a lot of people didn't realize he was the first to break the $1 million barrier in salary with Nolan (in the previous contract), ... As far as the players were concerned, we thought he was fantastic. He was tough but he was always fair and this was a first-class organization when he was here.